Thursday, November 22, 2007

If you've seen the demos of the "Interactive Report Regions" you know they are worth trying ;-) You can see here an interactive report on top of the Emp table!

Warning: Use Firefox... in IE7 I still have problems! (Carl Backstrom warned us at OOW, but I thought it was bluf ;-))

You may also have had this mail from the APEX Development team:

The Oracle Application Express Team is pleased to announce the debut of our 3.1 release for public evaluation. To access our hosted instance, please register. If you have participated in a previous evaluation, you will bypass the short survey. After registering, you will be provided with access to the evaluation instance from which new accounts can be requested.

You will need to request a workspace and then wait on the email notification.

The new feature that we would really like feedback on is our new region type - Interactive Report. This is a new SQL query based region type that lets end-users customize which columns they see as well as column order. End users can also, sort, filter, break, sum, highlight, and add computed columns using simple pull down menus.

The full list of 3.1 features available with this Early Adopters release is:

Application Builder

Interactive Report Regions *

Templates

Improve Searching of templates

Replace Templates

Publish Templates

Bulk Unsubscribe of templates

2 New Themes

Wizards

Allow for early exit when creating HTML region

Create Interactive Report Wizard

Remove 32k limit on Create Application on a Spreadsheet

Addition of Application Groups

Simplification of Page Group pages

Addition of Application Date Format

Support for Declarative Media Type

Can view existence of run-only application (but cannot edit them)

Display Application Name in App Builder footer

Workspace Administration

Workspace-specific Builder Notifications

Runtime Installation

APIs

Augment APEX_MAIL API to support adding attachments to e-mails

Please remember, the success of this Application Express 3.1 evaluation depends on user feedback. All participants are strongly encouraged to provide feedback using the feedback application. The link is also available from within the hosted Application Express 3.1 evaluation instance Home page.